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<i>Saul David reviews Napoleon: The Spirit of the Age by Michael Broers (Faber)</i><p>The first instalment of Michael Broers’s monumental three-part life of Napoleon Bonaparte – subtitled Soldier of Destiny – was published in 2014 and covered the 36 years that separated his subject’s birth in 1769 to the …

An idea can never be validated backwards, only forwards<p>When Steve Jobs first came up with the idea for the iPod, it wasn't actually a machine he had in mind, but "a thousand songs in my pocket." It was, at the time, an impossible idea, because hard drives of that capacity and size just didn't …

Last year, Xi Jinping defended globalization and free trade in the first-ever address given by any Chinese president in Davos, and rebuked many of Donald Trump’s “America First” policies without mentioning his name. This year, although Xi is not at the annual gathering of the global elite (while …

In the last decade, there has been an explosion in the number of research deals between companies and universities. Companies, which have been reducing their spending on early stage research for three decades, have been increasingly turning to universities to perform that role, seeking access to …

Philosophy skeptics have a tendency to sniffingly dismiss the field as useless. “What’s the point?” they ask, shrugging at the greatest ideas in human history. Well, aside from the intellectual pursuit of the truth etc., one point of philosophy is it shapes the world around us: Societal instincts …

<i>A Series of Profiles of Thought Leaders Changing the Business Landscape: Antoine Blondeau, Co-Founder and Chairman, Sentient Technologies.</i><p>As former Secretary of the Defense Donald Rumsfield once so famously said: “There are known knowns; there are things we know we know. We also know there are …

Touching upon subjects like Steve Jobs, animoji and the new Apple Campus.<p>As you can imagine, a slew of influential individuals were invited to the Apple Keynote on Tuesday, September 12 for the unveiling of the iPhone X, celebrating 10 years of the mobile phone. Two of those individuals were Jony …

Sean Sheppard, founder of GrowthX Academy, discusses the critical skills for the upcoming Innovation Economy.<p>How do we educate people for a future we can't predict? It's a question that's been on my mind a lot lately -- and, it turns out, it's been on Sean Sheppard's as well.<p>Sean is a serial …

A shift from disrupting markets to tackling grand challenges.<p>I recently appeared as a guest on Wharton Professor David Robertson's radio show, <i>Innovation Navigation</i>. David is an old pro and recently published an excellent new book on innovation, <i>The Power of Little Ideas</i>, so it was an interesting, …

Being a leader requires a strong drive to learn, something these 10 authors dwell on.<p>Opinions expressed by <i>Entrepreneur</i> contributors are their own.<p>Were you to ask any great leader in the world for his or her secret to success, the answer would be simple: listening. That's because the best leaders …

Humans have a primal, biological imperative to maintain the status quo, but seeking out answers to the unknown is also incredibly important to evolutionary innovation.<p>This dichotomy creates all sorts of kerfuffles. We’re taught to rid ourselves of implicit biases that don’t serve society and to …

It has influenced Star Wars and Game of Thrones – and characters as diverse as Voltaire, Nietzsche and Freddie Mercury have cited it as an inspiration. So what is Zoroastrianism? Joobin Bekhrad finds out.<p>Talk of ‘us’ and ‘them’ has long dominated Iran-related politics in the West. At the same time, …

<b>"The Blue Madonna," 17th Century. Oil on canvas. (The John and Mable Ringling Museum of Art.)</b><p>The mystery — and true history — of a one-hit wonder<p>My favorite painting is by 17th century painter Carlo Dolci, who never made anything else like it. Now we know why<p>Noah Charney<p>April 9, 2017 6:00pm (UTC)<p>In …

<b>(Wikicommons)</b><p>ISIS destroyed an ancient shrine — and archeologists may have discovered a wonder of the ancient world underneath<p>Noah Charney<p>March 12, 2017 6:00pm (UTC)<p>Last week, a group of concerned archaeologists, mapping out the extent of the damage wrought by ISIS when it occupied the Iraqi city …

When an anonymous Mexican man was taken to an American hospital after a car crash, a 16-year quest began. Lying in a persistent vegetative state, he became a source of hope for thousands of families looking for lost loved ones<p>Because the beginning was lost, his story always began in the middle, but …

Val McDermid, chair of this year’s judges, hails a selection that crosses divide between arts and sciences<p>Crime writer Val McDermid, who is chairing the judges for this year’s Wellcome book prize, has criticised the divide between arts and sciences in the UK’s education system, speaking out as the …

It was a bright hot day in June. Or possibly July. And the clocks almost certainly weren't striking thirteen, because they don't do that in this country.<p>But it WAS the summer of 1984. I was 9 years old, and my father was handing me a beat-up paperback with an anonymous-looking white and green …

George Orwell’s tale of doublespeak and Big Brother is flying off the shelf after the president’s inauguration. But other imaginary worlds are closer to reality<p>Since the inauguration of Donald Trump as president of the United States, George Orwell’s Nineteen Eighty-Four has shot up the bestseller …

From The Leftovers to Silence, movies and TV muse a God-shaped vacuum.<p>HBO’s <i>The Young Pope</i>is much more thoughtful (and much weirder) than the rampant memes it’s spawned would have you believe — and this only becomes more evident as the series continues. The actions of Pope Pius XIII (Jude Law), …

In 1984, at the height of his literary fame, Raduan Nassar announced his retirement, to become a farmer.<p>In 1973, the Brazilian writer Raduan Nassar quit his job. After six years as editor-in-chief at the <i>Jornal do Bairro</i>, an influential left-wing newspaper that opposed Brazil’s military regime, he …